F û g e l s
begins with a return
both physical and conceptual
to the landscape in which I grew up
During this period
I entered into conversations
with more than one hundred local residents.
Through these exchanges
and through close observation
I came to feel that while it is important
to listen to one another
it is even more urgent
to learn how to listen to the birds
This listening led me to Leeuwarden
where I photographed birds
from the collection of
the Nature Museum Fryslân
treating them as human portraits
as individuals
as bearers of presence and history
From these images
I developed photographic etchings
risographs, and blueprints
during a working period
in the printmaking studio in Frisia.
Reflecting
on biodiversity loss
on monoculture
and on the emotional impact
of ecological decline
described in Frisia
as landscape pain
Lânskipspiine
